The left rejected the Democrats’ corporate neoliberalism. Some held their nose and voted for the lesser evil despite loathing them, but too many couldn’t bring themselves to do it.

The lessons to be learned:

• Nominate Bernie Sanders when you have one. Be popular with the working class.
• Get rid of the shitty FPTP voting (= two party system) despite Democrats benefiting from it, because Republicans benefit even more now that they don’t have any spoilers or single-issue nonvoters.

Agreed, but people seem to have lost the understanding of hypertext.

Why did they think the word is blue? How is that not obvious anymore?

I said “More about boring dystopia further down the article”. The collaborational approach to computing was tossed by the wayside several times over the decades, and the result is a dystopia.

The superficial layout of input and output devices makes maybe 3% of the UX talked about in the whole article. “Design is how it works.”

Single-issue voters on the right, single-issue nonvoters on the left.

I ate lots of deep fried mild beige stinky tofu in Taiwan. Once I had a meal with a bit of old grey stinky tofu - the smell of summer garbage was disturbing. Try the slightly aged mild beige stuff first.

While we’re at it, try a translucent thousand year egg too, preferably as part of a dessert. Not bad, just weird.

A phone can notice when it’s in the hands of a security expert and start acting normal. Before dieselgate, Volkswagen cars had been emissions tested for years without finding anything suspicious. Turned out VW used the car’s sensors to detect when it was being tested.

Similarly before dieselgate, Volkswagen cars had been emissions tested for years without finding anything suspicious. Turned out VW used the car’s sensors to detect when it was being tested. A phone can notice when it’s in the hands of a security expert and start acting normal.

The question should be “How do countries/EU accept most of their citizens surveilled by a monopolistic company subject to a foreign country’s intelligence agency?”.

I don’t think it’s my personal responsibility to care unless I’m casting a vote. I don’t have enough extra energy to avoid surveillance anyway. Expecting billions of people each to take personal responsibility of finding out how to de-google, de-apple, de-microsoft, de-amazon, de-meta is too much. What percentage of people can install and configure Linux and Graphene OS and move everything from normal social media to Lemmy and Mastodon? We see the answer in current reality.

Somewhat relevant plugs:

On education reform: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-one-thing-that-should-be-taught-in-school-that-isnt-already/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

On digital community: https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen (the sick, sad history of computer-aided collaboration)

The effect of psilocybin on empathy and prosocial behavior: a proposed mechanism for enduring antidepressant effects - Nature.com

Does cannabis use affect empathy? - EurekAlert!

See https://lemmy.world/post/18437211

The dangers of artificial general intelligence (humans becoming even worse thinkers, dystopia, takeover) could be avoided by turning towards human collaborative intelligence augmentation.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

If so, it should begin with that.

The Starlost needs a remake. Great premise, dollar store execution.

Odyssey 5 goes well with Travelers.

I recommend switching to camera native aspect ratio, usually 4:3. You can crop later.

You may be interested in some history of computer-aided collaboration: https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen